Professor Dikla Segel-Karpas PhD

Professor Dikla Segel-Karpas is the Chair of the Department of Gerontology. She earned her PhD in the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, focusing on older workers and the transition to retirement. After a post-doctoral fellowship at the Department of Psychology, Brandeis University, she joined the Department of Gerontology. Her research focuses on mental health and well-being in older adulthood, couple and family relations in old age, subjective aging and the transition to retirement.

Dikla published more than 50 papers and book chapters.

Research Interests:

• Couple dyadic relationships in later life
• Social relationships and loneliness
• Intergenerational relationships
• Positive solitude
• Subjective aging
• Cynical hostility
• Subjective health and well-being

Keywords:

Social relations, couples, family, loneliness, solitude, subjective aging, mental health, well-being, older adults, aging, gerontology

SDG Keywords:

Mental health; Ageism; Disabilities

She can be contacted at: dsegel@univ.haifa.ac.il